I got my DropMark Beta invitation today! Wow what a great tool this is.

DropMark is a simple way to organize and collaborate in the cloud. It allows you to make collections of pictures or movies (upload or link from Youtube/Vimeo) and then share or collaborate on them.

I just made a RG | UX Movie Channel which is also featured in my menu. Check it out! Making this was dead simple.. just imagine the possibilities of this tool!!

Prices
The prices are also really great.. there is a Free Plan which gives you 1 GB storage.

And there is the Pro Plan which gives you 25 GB of storage.. Impressive right??

Visit their page at www.dropmark.com — and see for yourselves!

Very interesting experiments from Hivos how simple changes can get people to change their behavior.

In this example they test if it’s possible to get people to take the stairs instead of the elevator.. and therefor save energy!

More info:

http://www.facebook.com/seductionproject
https://twitter.com/#!/seducetoreduce
http://www.hivos.nl/seductionproject

Very recognizable.. and so time to try and #change so that some of these don’t apply anymore

More about this @ Guardian.co.uk

A fantastic collection of the best of 2011 by Graphic-ExchanGE. I always enjoy visiting this blog with all the wonderful posts of Letterpress identities and fabulous photography. A great space for #inspiration and #goodstyle.. This year overview is like a cherry..  Njoy!

More @ Graphic-ExchanGE

Dr. Eric Schaffer talks about 5 UX meltdowns and how they can be avoided.

You can download a poster of the animation athttp://www.humanfactors.com/meltdown.asp

The concept of object oriented CSS and how it can help improve both the performance and maintainability of your Web pages. As with any object-based coding method, the purpose of OOCSS is to encourage code reuse and, ultimately, faster and more efficient stylesheets that are easier to add to and maintain.

Almost every element on a styled Web page has different visual features (i.e. “skins”) that are repeated in different contexts. Think of a website’s branding — the colors, subtle uses of gradients, or visible borders. On the other hand, other generally invisible features (i.e. “structure”) are likewise repeated.

Benefits:

• Faster Websites
• Maintainable Stylesheets

More info @ SmashingMagazine

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Watch as Porsche engineers rigorously test the all-new 2012 Carrera 911 in South Africa and the Arctic Circle. Our engineers took the car on the most demanding road trips imaginable while in the most punishing of climates. They pushed the test vehicles to operating extreme months before the cars global debut. Why? To guarantee that the seventh-generation 2012 Carrera 911 will perform to Porsche Standards on the German Autobahn, interstate highway in the U.S. and anywhere else a car’s owner might be.

This was the opening video for the TEDx Hogeschool Utrecht event curated by Mischa Coster. Persuasion is used every day to get people to act in certain ways towards other people, towards causes, but mostly towards products and brands. The conference addressed the questions of how to use persuasion in a moral way to heal the planet socially, environmentally and economically.

Sebastian Deterding TEDx talk “Rethinking the Ethics of Design” @ TEDx Hoge School Utrecht on the 8th of November 2011.

Sebastian Deterding is a designer and researcher working on user experience, video games, persuasive technology and gameful design. He is broadly interested in how code shapes conduct — and how to put that knowledge into practice. He is a PhD researcher in Communication at the Graduate School of the Research Center for Media and Communication, Hamburg University. He is also an affiliated researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, and works as an independent user experience designer.

More info @ http://www.tedxhogeschoolutrecht.com/

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Don Norman’s talk on Tedx at the Hoge School Utrecht on the 8th of November 2011 about the impact of Persuasion.

Don Norman was recently named by Business Week as “one of the world’s most influential designers.” His studies and books on design theory coupled with his extensive academic and industry experience help companies produce enjoyable and effective products and services. Norman brings a systems approach to design, arguing that great design must touch every aspect of a company.

He is well known for his books, including “The Design of Everyday Things” and “Emotional Design” “The well-rounded product,” says Norman, “will enhance the heart as well as the mind, being a joy to behold as well as to use.” He is the co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, an IDEO fellow, a Trustee of IIT’s Institute of Design in Chicago, professor emeritus at Northwestern University and the University of California, San Diego. He has been a Vice President of Apple and an executive at Hewlett Packard. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His book. “Living with Complexity,” argues that the quest for simplicity is misguided because complexity is both good and necessary: our lives are complex, and our tools must match the tasks we do. What we need are things we can understand and master, for once mastered, even complex-looking things are simple. He lives at www.jnd.org

More info @ http://www.tedxhogeschoolutrecht.com/